A complete cinematic train wreck, THE BRIDE! is an unwatchable, boring, moronic, self-important mess that starts badly and goes downhill from there. It's a good thing Jessie Buckley won an Oscar last weekend for "Hamnet", because she's horrible here, overacting so badly she makes Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" look monstrously reserved. To be fair to Buckley, Director Maggie Gyllenhaal is responsible for this mess. There is "swinging for the fences" and then there's this, a

A feast for the eyes and the ears in Dolby Cinema, PROJECT HAIL MARY aims for the stars and beautifully blows past them by every measure. Adapting Andy Weir's best selling novel, Oscar winning Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have created a science fiction film for the ages. If you're old enough (like me) to have seen "2001" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" on the big screen when they were released, get ready to have that same sense of wonder again in the th

As we get ready to watch the latest Andy Weir adaption, "Project Hail Mary" this evening, let's take a look back at my review of "The Martian" , the film adaption of Weir's first novel in 2015. When you look at Ridley Scott's three films within the Science Fiction film canon of the past 40 years, "Alien", "Blade Runner" and even (arguably) "Prometheus" stand out as modern film classics. Let's add another one to that group with 2015's THE MARTIAN . Based on first-time novelis

It all comes down to the music in the 1976 remake of A STAR IS BORN starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. This was one of Barbra's first efforts as producer/actress and she and then boyfriend (and hairdresser) Jon Peters throw it all at the screen in their version of the oft-told story of a rising and a falling star in love. Kristofferson oozes rock star charisma as John Norman Howard, hit maker, alcoholic and wild man. After a drunken, angry concert one night,

Alan Alda not only wrote THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN , he stars as the title character, a hardworking senator with Presidential ambitions. His life is about to get a lot more complicated. After passing a long talked about jobs bill, Tynan's stock in Washington soars. He suddenly finds himself leading the opposition against a Supreme Court nominee with a very racist past. The lead champion of that same nominee is long-time friend Senator Birney, well played by Melvyn Douglas, w

Jason Statham has become one of our most reliable action heroes, turning out one enjoyable popcorn action flick after another. His latest, SHELTER is no exception. Statham again reminds me of Charles Bronson in the seventies, who delivered a reliable action flick like "The Mechanic" or "Mr Majestyk" every 8 months or so. The difference is that Statham's thrillers have $50 million budgets that deliver grand scale action and thrills on a level Bronson only dreamed about. This

We've all heard of the perfect crime. CRIME 101 is the perfect crime film. It's early in 2026, but I think it will be hard for any film this year to top this slick, intricately constructed mystery thriller. The best of its kind since Pierce Brosnan's "The Thomas Crown Affair" in 1999, CRIME 101 pulls you into four characters that will eventually collide on screen. Chris Hemsworth is excellent as James, a meticulous & mysterious jewel thief executing a precisely planned seri

One of the stranger BIG box office hits from the early seventies, WILLARD is infested with rodents, but very few scares. A very young Bruce Davidson stars as Willard Stiles, a timid young accountant who suffers daily, cringing in the wake of Martin (Ernest Borgnine) his loud, demanding boss. Willard lives at home with his aging mother Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester) in their crumbling, big old Victorian house. Browbeat by his boss, trampled on by life, Willard begins to make fri

Rose Byrne delivers a powerhouse performance as a woman stretched to her limits and far beyond in IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU . It's the darkest of comedies and the most lethal of dramas wrapped in a relentless fever dream. This is not a fun night at the movies and Writer/Director Mary Bronstein isn't interested in spoon feeding you a tidy narrative. Bronstein and Byrne craft a very tough and delicate woman in Linda. She takes no shit off anyone as her life spins ever so slowl

Take everything you love about 80's action flicks, douse it in everything you loved about the original "Predator", throw in a hint of "Aliens" military action and you get WAR MACHINE , one of the purest thrill rides I've enjoyed in ages. This thing is a beast that I never saw coming. Alan Ritchson (Reacher, The History of Ungentlemanly Warfare) is a giant of a soldier. As the film opens, we meet him in the middle of Afghanistan military ops, where he and his brother (Jai Cour